I believe that some of the Intel cards supports framesize uptp 64k for gigabit ethernet, check to see if the one you have does this. If it does you should get better throughput by increasing your MTU on each end.
If it does you will probably have to play with the framesize to get the most efficient size for you setup. HTH, Steve On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 10:41, P�r Wedin wrote: > Hi all! > > I recently upgraded my LAN to gigabit, but so far it's been a disappointment. > It really isn't much faster than it used to be... > > If I fetch a large file from my proftpd server I get about 11 MB/s, and the > same file from apache about 15 MB/s. I was hoping for at least twice that. > > The server is a P3-733 and the workstation is a XP1600+, and they are directly > connected with a shielded CAT6 cable and two Intel PRO/1000MT NIC's. I use > the 4.4.19 driver from Intel. The cpu load is about 75-80% on the server when > I fetch the files and I get pretty much the same results with and without > jumbo frames. > > Is this all I can expect to get? Isn't 75-80% cpu load a bit much? > > I would really appreciate some input from you all. I strongly suspect I > swallowed the gigabit hype hook line and sinker... > > /P�r. > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
